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Updated: May 14, 2025
The upward migration of eels goes on from February till May on the Thames, but the regular "eel-fare" of the young grigs do not assume any great size till May, when as many as 1,800, about three inches long, were seen to pass a given point in one minute. So say the records. But who could have counted them so fast? A few recent developments of the eel trade elsewhere show how valuable this may be.
But the most repulsive of the destructive results of human expansion is the poisoning of rivers, and the consequent extinction in them of fish and of well-nigh every living thing, save mould and putrefactive bacteria. In the Thames it will soon be a hundred years since man, by his filthy proceedings, banished the glorious salmon, and murdered the innocents of the eel-fare.
We are grateful for #elver#. This form has carefully differentiated itself from eel-fare, which means the passage of the young eels up the rivers, and has come to mean the eel-fry themselves. 'For Sussex cries from primrose lags and breaks'.
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